Columbia, MD, June 23, 2023 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Sparksoft Corporation with a prime contract to provide Red Hat OpenShift consulting services for preliminary deployment to the National Institute Aging (NIA) Network Infrastructure Section (NIS). The NIA, one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of NIH, leads the federal government in conducting and supporting research on aging and the health and well-being of older people. The Institute seeks to understand the nature of aging and the aging process, and diseases and conditions associated with growing older, to extend the healthy, active years of life. The NIA pursues this mission by funding extramural research at universities and medical centers across the United States and around the world; maintaining an active communications and outreach program; and conducting a vibrant intramural research program at NIA laboratories in Baltimore and Bethesda, Maryland. Alongside NIA grantees, the NIAs intramural and extramural scientists conduct and support broad scientific efforts focusing on aging research, age-related diseases, and supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults, extending the healthy, active years of life. Under this contract, Sparksoft will architect and deploy a Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine cluster for a development environment to meet NIA’s needs with a solution to be deployed on virtual servers in a Vmware vCenter environment. Sparksoft will perform services that support the NIA objectives through the following tasks:
- Logistics
- Design
- Storage
- Networking
- Dependencies
- Documentation
- Project Management
“It is truly a privilege to be such a trusted partner to our HHS clients, who are some of the most dedicated public servants leading transformational missions. It is never easy to break into a new agency and I am very excited to establish Sparksoft’s roots at the NIA” said Sparksoft’s President Ms. Siva Sivaraman. Sparksoft’s CEO, Mr. Mike Finkel stated that “We are honored and humbled that the government continues to trust us with support on some of the most mission-critical public health programs that impact our families and communities. Through our strategic partnership with Red Hat and deep healthcare domain expertise, we are able to quickly deliver highly qualified professionals and impactful solutions.” This award establishes Sparksoft as a preferred Red Hat system integrator for the Federal Government and expands Sparksoft’s footprint across HHS driving innovation through best of breed technologies on agency-wide programs like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Immunization Gateway; the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Marketplace Open Modernization and Optimization Technologies (MOMOT) to develop the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Multidimensional Insurance Data Analytics System (MIDAS), Federal Data Services Hub (Hub), as well as delivering other CMS ecosystem innovations such as providing highly secure and available access to over 50 integrated systems on Enterprise Portal Services (EPS), Medicare Payment Systems Modernization from legacy Mainframe and Cobol solution to a Microservices Architecture in the AWS Cloud on Medicare Integrated Systems Testing (MIST), and the HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS) modernization as the HETS Independent Testing Contractor (HITC). To learn more about Sparksoft’s role in supporting CMS with the ACA Marketplace during the Coronavirus pandemic, please visit https://www.sparksoftcorp.com/articles/sparksoft-supports-aca-marketplace.html.
